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ROW ON ROW of former soldiers in the
South Saskatchewan Regiment join in a
memorial tribute Saturday at the Sidney

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cenotaph. The regiment association held
its annual reunion in Sidney over the week-

Reunion marched through Sidney

It was the best reunion to date
for the South Saskatchewan Regi-
ment Association, president Les
Moore of North Saanich was told
repeatedly last weekend by the
over 100 people who attended the
event.

“They were really tickled with
Sidney,” he said. He was told by
many that Sidney should host the
reunion again.

“We'll try and get it back,”
Moore said.

A highlight of the weekend was
a parade of former regiment mem-
bers, accompanied by a pipe band
and a color party, through Sidney

and to the cenotaph for a
Remembrance ceremony.

The group had many comrades
to remember. The South Saskat-
chewan Regiment mobilized for
the second World War in Septem-
ber 1939 and, after training in
England, landed at Dieppe in
August 1942.

Casualties from that first battle
were high. Of the 523 members
who landed at Dieppe, 19 officers
and 321 other ranks were killed.

The first Victoria Cross awarded
to a Canadian was presented to Lt.
Col. Cecil Merritt following the
battle.

Sidney Cenotaph.

FLAGS WERE LOWERED in tribute to those South Saskat-
chewan Regiment members who Gied in the Second World
War during a Remembrance ceremony Saturday at the

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The regiment retumed to Eng-
land to regroup and add more
members. After more training, the
regiment again sailed for France,
landing on July 6, 1944 and fight-
ing through France, Belgium and
Holland until the regiment crossed
into Germany in February, 1945.

Part of the regiment was still
moving through Holland in April
1945 when word was received that
prisoners in a concentration camp
at Westerbonk, 75 miles away,
were to be killed at 10 am. Apmil
13 by the retreating German
forces.

The regiment’s A company
marched through the night to reach
the camp and captured the camp
April 12, saving over 900 Jewish
and political prisoners. Local resi-
dent Bob Morrow was serving
with A company and still recalls
the gratitude of the freed prisoners.

When the cease fire came May
5, the regiment was at Ofen Air-
port. By then the South Saskat-
chewan Regiment had lost 475
men. There were 1212 men
wounded and 146 taken as prison-
ers Of war.

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